Deuteronomy 4:13

4:13 And he revealed to you the covenant ¹  he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, ²  writing them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 4:31

4:31 (for he ³  is a merciful God), he will not let you down ⁴  or destroy you, for he cannot ⁵  forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

Deuteronomy 5:3

5:3 He ⁶  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ⁷  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he ⁸  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ⁹  them. Make no treaty ¹⁰  with them and show them no mercy!

Deuteronomy 7:9

7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, ¹¹  the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully ¹²  with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 9:11

9:11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:15

9:15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it ¹³  was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 29:9

The Present Covenant Setting

29:9 “Therefore, keep the terms ¹⁴  of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 29:21

29:21 The Lord will single him out ¹⁵  for judgment ¹⁶  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

Deuteronomy 29:25

29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:26

31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

Deuteronomy 33:9

33:9 He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” ¹⁷ 

and he did not acknowledge his own brothers

or know his own children,

for they kept your word,

and guarded your covenant.

[4:13]  ¹ sn This is the first occurrence of the word בְּרִית (bÿrit, “covenant”) in the Book of Deuteronomy but it appears commonly hereafter (4:23, 31; 5:2, 3; 7:9, 12; 8:18; 9:9, 10, 11, 15; 10:2, 4, 5, 8; 17:2; 29:1, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 25; 31:9, 16, 20, 25, 26; 33:9). Etymologically, it derives from the notion of linking or yoking together. See M. Weinfeld, TDOT 2:255.

[4:13]  ² tn Heb “the ten words.”

[4:31]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “he will not drop you,” i.e., “will not abandon you” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[4:31]  ⁵ tn Or “will not.” The translation understands the imperfect verbal form to have an added nuance of capability here.

[5:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

[7:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[7:2]  ⁸ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

[7:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

[7:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the God.” The article here expresses uniqueness; cf. TEV “is the only God”; NLT “is indeed God.”

[7:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (bÿrit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).

[9:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the mountain.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[29:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “words.”

[29:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “set him apart.”

[29:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

[33:9]  ¹⁷ sn This statement no doubt alludes to the Levites’ destruction of their own fellow tribesmen following the golden calf incident (Exod 32:25-29).